Alaska National Weather Service office begs “please pay us” in secret message

[Tony_FLADEM]

In an official public forecast discussion, the Anchorage National Weather Service office – whose employees are working without knowledge of when they will be paid during the ongoing Federal shutdown - encoded this secret message: “Please pay us.”

The first letter in each of the first 11 lines in the forecast discussion spells out the message, as shown below.



It appears the office published an alternative version of the discussion, without the stealth plea, simultaneously (5 a.m. Alaska daylight time).

As of 5 p.m. EDT, two versions of the forecast discussion, with and without the hidden message were viewable on the National Weather Service Web site.

To support its mission of protecting life and property and to continue issuing forecasts and warnings, the National Weather Service excepted approximately 3,935 employees from the shutdown.

“There’s no money to pay them,” Dan Sobien, president of the National Weather Service Employees Organization, told Popular Science. “Nobody knows when anyone’s going to get paid.”

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/capital-weather-gang/wp/2013/10/04/weather-service-office-begs-please-pay-us-in-secret-message/?tid=sm_fb

[Scootaloo]

1. This is how a nation dies

It's not the barbarians pounding at the gates. it's not divine wrath for the licentiousness of the people. It's when the food and the gold stops moving.

[Hydra]

2. The barbarians come later

And I laugh about the licentiousness thing. The top people are always debauch themselves silly, but it's a bad thing when the common people do it?

[Blue_In_AK]

3. I'm sorry I didn't see your post when I posted mine.

Maybe someone with power could combine these two threads.

[valerief]

4. There's only money to pay Congress. nt

[RedCappedBandit]

5. Sad thing is, this is just one step towards the libertarian end game